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AI researchers predict a slim chance of apocalyptic outcomes Stephen Taylor / Alamy Stock Photo Many artificial intelligence researchers see the possible future development of superhuman AI as having a non-trivial chance of causing human extinction – but there is also widespread disagreement and uncertainty about such risks. Those findings …

Gemini can handle text, audio and video Google Google has launched a new AI model, dubbed Gemini, which it claims can outperform both OpenAI’s GPT-4 model and “expert level” humans in a range of intelligence tests. The firm’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, revealed the existence of Gemini at Google’s I/O conference …

Shall we play a game? mccool/Alamy A single artificial intelligence can beat human players in chess, Go, poker and other games that require a variety of strategies to win. The AI, called Student of Games, was created by Google DeepMind, which says it is a step towards an artificial general …

Humans and robots often work alongside each other to assemble products agefotostock/Alamy People tend to cut corners and allow trusted colleagues to pick up the slack when working as a team, in a phenomenon known as social loafing. Now researchers have found that the same thing happens when humans work …

AI is increasingly being used by lawyers, but chatbots still don’t do that well at everyday legal tasks WESTOCK PRODUCTIONS/Shutterstock Compared to other AI chatbots, GPT-4 performs best on a test of legal reasoning – but it still falls short of the knowledge required for human lawyers. Early attempts to …

Bots seem to have mastered passing the CAPTCHA tests designed to check if website users are human UC Irvine et al. (2023); Stephen Frost/Alamy Bots are better and faster than humans at online CAPTCHA tests designed to keep them out of websites. The finding calls into question whether we should …

An automated robot gardener has shown its nurturing side by matching humans in trials of growing vegetables – and it did it with more efficient use of water. Simeon Adebola at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues have developed an automated plot, called AlphaGarden, that contains a mix …

ChatGPT could be used to help train other AIs Shutterstock / Iryna Imago The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT could automate some aspects of AI training that currently rely on people. The chatbot can accurately classify and label text data used in training AI at a cost of just a third …

AI agents successfully organised a Valentine’s Day party in this simulation Stanford University ChatGPT-powered AIs given long-term memory capabilities and personal motivations could role-play characters in a simulated town more believably than human crowd workers. “This idea of creating believable agents that actually exhibit this behaviour – that give the …

Robotic dogs can locate fire ant nests Xin Su | Lanzhou University Robotic dogs can spot invasive fire ant nests more efficiently than human searchers – and they can safely stir up a swarm of aggressive ants by poking their nests, which can help researchers identify the notorious pests. The …